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Source Code Encoding |
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-By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in UTF-8. In that |
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-encoding, characters of most languages in the world can be used simultaneously |
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-in string literals, identifiers and comments --- although the standard library |
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-only uses ASCII characters for identifiers, a convention that any portable code |
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-should follow. To display all these characters properly, your editor must |
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-recognize that the file is UTF-8, and it must use a font that supports all the |
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-characters in the file. |
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+By default, Python source files are treated as encoded in ASCII. |
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To declare an encoding other than the default one, a special comment line |
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should be added as the *first* line of the file. The syntax is as follows:: |
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